[extropy-chat] That T-rex

[Brian Lee]

Can't wait for the new Jurassic Park to open up with a live T-Rex.

BAL

>From: Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com>
>To: "'ExI chat list'" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
>Subject: [extropy-chat] That T-rex
>Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:23:16 -0600
>
>NYT:
>
>< Workers at a field site in Montana had broken the 70-million-year-old 
>fossilized thighbone of a Tyrannosaurus rex in half for purely logistical 
>reasons - huge bone, small helicopter. When scientists examined the bone 
>fragments in the lab, they discovered something no one expected to find - 
>unfossilized soft tissue, including blood vessels and the cells that line 
>them.
>
>Just how these tissues were preserved is a very good question, one that may 
>lead scientists to re-examine their theories of fossilization. >
>
>The answer is obvious: the T-rex, and all the other dinosaurs, were not 
>70-or-more million years old after all, but only 6000 at most. Praise the 
>Lord!
>
>Damien Broderick
>
>
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